noun
a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative
• Hypernyms: ↑sublimate
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noun : a chloride of mercury: as
a. : calomel
b. : a heavy transparent crystalline poisonous compound HgCl2 made usually by heating mercury with gaseous chlorine or by subliming a mixture of mercury sulfate and common salt and used chiefly as a disinfectant and fungicide, in making other mercury compounds, and in photography — called also corrosive sublimate, mercuric chloride, mercury(II) chloride
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mercury chloride,
= bichloride of mercury. (Cf. ↑bichloride of mercury)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.